Frosting - Selecting the Right Decorating Bag for You

Posted on Feb 1st 2016

Cake Decorating

How to Choose
Decorating Bags

Learn about using three types of bags: Featherweight, Disposable, and Parchment. Let's see what makes each of these bags unique:

Featherweight Bags are lightweight, strong, washable polyester. Specially coated to prevent any seepage of grease, these bags can be used over and over and still stay flexible.

Disposable Bags are clear plastic. Handy for fast decorating, these bags are just thrown away when the decorating is done.

Parchment Bags are made from parchment paper triangles. Generally, you'll use parchment bags to make decorative highlights with small amounts of icing, then discard each bag when it's empty. We recommend using a new parchment bag after each use.

The Coupler, and How It Works Using a two-part device called a coupler lets you interchange several decorating tips without changing the bag. The two parts of the coupler are the base and the ring. The base fits inside the bag, then you put the decorating tip of your choice over the portion of the coupler that sticks out of the bag. When you screw the ring on, you've locked the decorating tip onto the coupler and bag.
Featherweight & Disposable Bags These bags can be used with or without a coupler. To use without a coupler, cut about 3/4 in. off tip of Disposable Bag (Featherweight Bag is ready to use). Simply drop the decorating tip you want into the bag with the narrow end of the tip down.
Featherweight Bags A new Featherweight bag will have to be trimmed with scissors to accommodate the coupler base. First, twist the ring off the coupler base. Drop the coupler base, narrow end first, into the bag and push as far down as you can. With a pen or pencil, mark the spot on the outside where the bottom thread is outlined against the bag material. Push the coupler back up into the bag, and cut across where you have made the mark.Push the coupler base back down through the bag opening. One thread should be showing.
Choose the decorating tip you want to use and slip it onto the coupler base. Now twist the coupler ring over the tip, locking it in place. Changing decorating tips is easy: Twist off the ring, replace with new tip, then screw the ring back on.
Disposable Plastic Bags Unscrew coupler ring. Notice that the threads in the coupler base start about 1/2 in. above the tip. Push the coupler base into the bag as far down as possible. With scissors, trim bag about 1/4 in. below bottom edge of coupler. Position decorating tip over coupler base and bag. Screw ring in place to secure. To change decorating tips, unscrew ring, replace decorating tip and screw on ring.
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